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Chapter 107 Li Huan Steps Up to Accept the Seal! [add more]

An inexplicable pressure was born, and Li Dongyang took a deep breath. At this time, he, the chief minister of the cabinet, had no choice but to stand up, his face full of guilt and shame, and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is ashamed, this servant is... Accidentally killed."

Zhu Houzhao's face was as calm as water, and his voice was even more colorless: "He was accidentally beaten to death, so let me ask you, do you know who he is and what he represents?"

Feeling the anger contained in Zhu Houzhao's calm appearance, fine sweat even oozes from Li Dongyang's forehead.

Just when Li Dongyang was about to speak, Zhu Houzhao suddenly said to Xie Qian: "Xie Qian, you come and answer me."

When all the officials present heard Zhu Houzhao directly calling Xie Qian's name, their hearts thumped, and a bad feeling rose from their hearts.

You must know that Zhu Houzhao has always shown great respect when facing the cabinet members, whether he is in the front or the queen, and they are all addressed by the Qing family.

Moreover, the emperor treated Li Dongyang with respect just now, but he called Xie Qian by his first and last name in a blink of an eye.

From this point alone, it can be seen that everything that happened before the palace gate is actually known to the emperor.

The Son of Heaven could clearly see who was behind this act of coercing the palace, and his heart was as clear as water.

What a Xie Qian, he is worthy of being an old minister who has survived for many dynasties. Even if the emperor did not show any face in front of all the officials, his expression remained unchanged, and he slowly supported Zhu Houzhao to worship: "The old minister pays homage to Your Majesty, Your Majesty impeached that little eunuch for falsely preaching His Majesty's will, and if you don't kill such treacherous people, how can you warn those who come after you?"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing angrily when he heard the words, the skill of putting on the hat is really a special skill of these people, he put the hat of treason on Li Huan before, and now he put the hat of false edict on the little eunuch.

As soon as he patted the armrest of Luanjia, Zhu Houzhao laughed angrily: "False imperial decree? It's so funny, you even dare to kill the servants around me at will. Do you want to rebel?"

Xie Qian fell to his knees with a plop, kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, this old minister is doing everything for His Majesty. Now His Majesty is surrounded by treacherous villains. The old minister was entrusted by the late emperor. How can he just sit idly by, even if he is being trusted by His Majesty?" Misunderstood, the old minister also implores His Majesty to eradicate Liu Jin, Li Huan and other treacherous villains."

Liu Jin served by Zhu Houzhao's side. Seeing that Xie Qian was directly targeting him, she was furious, pointed at Xie Qian with an orchid flower and said, "Old man, our family just wants to send someone to check your taxes and clear your taxes. Tian, ​​you old thing is like a mad dog staring at our family and biting wildly, our family is a treacherous villain, what are you clothes like a beast?"

One is the elder of the court, and the other is the chief inspector of ceremonies. In terms of their status, they can be said to be high and noble, but now they are blaming each other in front of everyone regardless of their status.

Zhu Houzhao shouted abruptly: "That's enough, let me ask you, who exactly participated in the besieging and beating of my servants?"

Xie Qian looked at Zhu Houzhao, his eyes were full of disappointment, and said, "Your Majesty, are you going to punish my servant of the Ming Dynasty for a little eunuch?"

Li Huan looked at Xie Qian, and couldn't help but said: "It's really funny, the murderer pays for his life, when will my Ming officials be able to ignore human lives at will? Or is it that Xie Ge has long been used to neglecting human lives..."

Xie Qian said angrily, "Young man, you will die a terrible death if you insult my civil servant."

Zhu Houzhao just looked at Xie Qian coldly, and among the officials, those who participated in the beating of the young eunuch also looked at Xie Qian expectantly.

The emperor was furious. At this moment, only Xie Qian, who had gone through several dynasties, was able to resist the anger of the emperor for them.

Taking a deep breath, Xie Qian slowly took off the official hat on top of his head, losing the restraint of the official hat, and suddenly his hair fell loose.

I saw Xie Qian holding the official hat in both hands and slowly placing it on the ground in front of him, then bowed respectfully to Zhu Houzhao and said: "If your majesty wants to punish the crimes of all officials, please resign as a cabinet minister." , punish the crime of the minister first."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned. Any one of the cabinet ministers is an important minister above the court. I don't know how many officials are standing behind them. The change of any cabinet minister may lead to the change of power in the court, and may even lead to The court was in turmoil.

Even Zhu Houzhao did not expect Xie Qian to confront him in this way.

Looking at Xie Qian, Zhu Houzhao was filled with anger. Is Xie Qian betting that the emperor would not dare to dismiss him as an elder at will?

"The minister Liu Jian is also guilty. I implore Your Majesty's associate minister to resign as a cabinet minister."

While speaking, Liu Jian also took off his official hat, and knelt down in front of Luanjia together with Xie Qian.

"No way!"

Li Dongyang couldn't help exclaiming, the four members of the cabinet, if Liu Jian and Xie Qian really resigned today, then half of the cabinet will collapse, especially Liu Jian and Xie Qian's disciples are all over the place and the court, one can't handle it well There may be turmoil in the court and even in the local area during the Jieshi period.

As Xie Qian's disciple, Guo Wen, the servant of the household department, saw Xie Qian's intentions and winked. Immediately, dozens of officials from Xie Qian and Liu Jian's line bowed down to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Majesty, both of you! Gelao is the pillar of my great Ming Dynasty, an important minister entrusted by the late emperor..."

Li Huan stood aside, just watching the actions of Xie Qian, Liu Jian and the officials, and suddenly felt an urge to laugh.

Is this resignation? It is basically using the resignation as a threat to force the emperor to make concessions.

Shaking his head slightly, Li Huan looked at Xie Qian, Liu Jian and others with pity. These people are really confused, or they think too highly of themselves.

Emperor Xiaozong treated them preferentially for many years, which made them feel that they could persecute the emperor at will. Didn't you see that Zhu Houzhao was angry at the moment?

At this time, with the threat of resignation, with Zhu Houzhao's temperament, instead of giving in, he became more and more aggressive.

Sure enough, seeing Zhu Houzhao sitting on that luanjia, watching the officials below behave like clowns, he suddenly couldn't help laughing.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly laughed out loud, but it stunned all the officials, who looked at the emperor in astonishment and confusion.

Gradually Zhu Houzhao restrained his laughter, but his face was full of disappointment and pain. Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe, who noticed the emperor's expression, felt something bad in their hearts, just when they were about to speak.

Zhu Houzhao said decisively: "Okay, since Xie Qian and Liu Jian insisted on resigning from the position of elders, then I will be the beauty of an adult, and I will do what you want."

Speaking Zhu Houzhao said: "Come here, take back the official uniforms and official seals of the two, and immediately spread the decree to the world, telling all the people, take back all the rewards for the two, and demote them to common people."

Finally Zhu Houzhao said again: "Never recover!"

"His Majesty……"

Li Dongyang's complexion changed drastically, and he subconsciously spoke to Zhu Houzhao.

However, Zhu Hou took a look at Li Dongyang and snorted coldly: "You don't need to say anything more, since the two of them have voluntarily resigned, I will not force them to stay, as long as they are allowed."

But at this moment, Zhu Houzhao's decisive and straightforward decision shocked everyone, especially Xie Qian and Liu Jian, who were the parties concerned. But the emperor's words exploded in their ears like thunder.

As soon as their bodies softened, they were full of energy just a moment ago, and the fighting spirit of the two seemed to have been drained of energy, their eyes were dull, as if they were stupid.

They fight across the court and the public, speak their minds, and even dare to move the emperor to fight against them. It is the senior official of the cabinet. They are all existences high above.

But now the emperor has dismissed their cabinet elders, which means that they have lost their power and become ordinary people.

Even if the emperor doesn't pursue them, the people they offended in the past may not be so easy to talk to.

Thinking about what would happen to their huge family if they lost their protection, Xie Qian and Liu Jian couldn't help feeling afraid for a while just thinking about it.

"His Majesty……"

The two of them who were originally dull-eyed shook their heads, subconsciously wanting to plead with the emperor.

But at this moment, Li Huan waved his hands and said, "Don't help the two elders take off their official clothes!"

Don't say that Li Huan doesn't hold grudges, this is directly interrupting the two people who wanted to open their mouths to plead, directly killing the last hope of the two people.

As soon as Li Huan finished speaking, several guards in Jin Yi stepped forward to take off the court clothes on the two of them, and took back the official seals they carried with them. In the blink of an eye, the two elders standing at the top of the Ming Dynasty Hall He plummeted and became a commoner.

For them, official position, authority, and reputation are more important than life. Now that everything is gone, it is even more unacceptable than dying directly.

Seeing their official clothes being stripped off, both of them were 70 years old, how could they bear such a blow, they rolled their eyes and passed out directly.

After all, Zhu Houzhao was the benevolent master. Seeing the miserable appearance of the two, he took a deep breath and said, "Come here, send the two of them back home."

After dealing with Xie Qian and Liu Jian, Zhu Houzhao didn't look at the two who were taken away by Jin Yiwei.

At this moment, Li Huan's eyes fell on those stunned officials, looked at the emperor's expression, and immediately said sharply: "Whoever participated in the beating, don't stand up for me!"

Accompanied by Li Huan's stern shout, some officials immediately limp and fell to the ground in fright;

"Your Majesty, forgive me, I don't mean it, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Seeing that the emperor had dealt with Xie Qian and Liu Jian so cleanly, some officials were disappointed and stood up obediently.

There are also officials who are lucky enough to shrink back and do not want to take the initiative to plead guilty.

Li Huan sneered, and said with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "I advise you not to take chances, otherwise, if you go through a life in Jin Yiwei's prison, I can guarantee that you will even have to confess how old you are when you wet the bed!"

Seeing Li Huan's cold gaze, the official who had been lucky could not help but shiver, and walked out obediently.

The law does not blame the public, and if everyone bears the consequences together, the final result may not be so pessimistic, but if it falls into the hands of Jin Yiwei, then I am afraid that he will die and cannot die anymore.

All of a sudden, there were more than a dozen officials. Some of these officials were so frightened that Jin Yiwei had to hold them up. It is said that eunuchs should be killed, and everyone should be punished.

Zhu Hou looked at more than a dozen officials with different expressions, sighed slightly and said to Li Huan: "Li Qing, these people will be imprisoned and interrogated by Jin Yiwei, and I will check them out. If they are not guilty, I will use my own discretion." If you are guilty, you should be punished for several crimes, and you will never be forgiven lightly."

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, the complexions of the dozens of officials captured by Jin Yiwei suddenly changed drastically, and even the officials who had kept a little calm just now were so frightened that they fainted.

Someone directly yelled at Yang Tinghe and Li Dongyang, "Ge Lao save me, Ge Lao save me!"

Such a scene only made Li Huan sneer, it wasn't that he looked down on these officials, and among the officials present, there were probably not one in a hundred who dared to say that they were innocent.

Zhu Houzhao saw the unbearable reactions of these officials, and couldn't help but think of the various crimes Li Huan presented to him not long ago about Luo Wenxiang, Du Wen, and Han Fuli, and couldn't help but feel a burst of disappointment in his heart.

Li Huan waved his hand, and soon these officials were brought down by Jin Yiwei.

There was silence in the arena. Li Huan led Jin Yiwei to suppress the audience. Zhu Houzhao was clean and quick, and directly dismissed Xie Qian and Liu Jian. Time to stand up and impeach Li Huan.

Zhu Houzhao glanced across the crowd of officials and said: "Do you love me, do you have anything to say? Now I am here, and you can speak freely!"

All the officials looked at me and I looked at you, all silent.

Zhu Houzhao said slowly: "Since Qing is fine, then I will announce something."

As he said that, Zhu Hou took a look at Li Huan and said, "Li Huan, come forward and listen to the seal!"

Li Huan was stunned, not knowing what Zhu Houzhao was going to do, but he still went up to bow down and said, "My lord, Li Huan is here!"

Zhu Hou looked at Li Huan for a while and said, "Li Huan, the governor of Jinyiwei, made great achievements in arresting the criminals Luo Wenxiang, Du Wen, and Han Fuli. He was promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei. It's a matter."

Li Huan was a little surprised. It was understandable for Zhu Houzhao to promote him to be the Commander of Jinyiwei. After all, he was working in Jinyiwei right now.

But the Du Commander is a military post. The third division of the Ming Dynasty, the Du Commander is the highest military yamen in the local area, and it belongs to the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies. But the military officer position of the third rank.

Of course, Li Huan also knew that Jinyiwei had thousands of households in Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei commanded affairs, but almost all of them only enjoyed official salaries and no real positions.Zhu Houzhao just appointed him as the third-rank commander of the capital, which belongs to the position of Jilu official who only enjoys the position of high-ranking official and has no real power.

Of course, with this official position, as long as Zhu Houzhao is willing, he can turn this official position of sending salary into a real position of military power at any time.

Obviously, while paving the way for Li Huan to take over Jinyiwei, Zhu Houzhao was also installing Li Huan's identity in the army.

Li Huan could see Zhu Houzhao's intentions, and all the officials around could also see Zhu Houzhao's intentions.

If it is just to promote Li Huan's official position in the Jinyiwei, even if they have opinions, they can't say anything. After all, they are the emperor's pro-army. .

But they couldn't control the promotion of Jin Yiwei's official position, but Zhu Houzhao also rewarded Li Huandu with the official position of commander Qianshi, so they could no longer sit idly by.

The matter of Du Commander is a high-level official position among military officials. A military officer of the third rank, and a step further is Du Commander Tongzhi, Du Commander, who can be the head of the third department.

Even if the military officials are not happy now, and they are severely suppressed by their civil official group, and their decline is extremely low, it doesn't mean that they are willing to see Li Huan, who obviously doesn't play cards according to the rules, enter the ranks of military officials.

This is not just a matter of Jin Yiwei, but it involves civil and military disputes. Even if the emperor dismissed two court elders and Jin Yiwei took away more than a dozen officials, all the civil servants present saw Zhu Houzhao When Li Huan was made a military minister, it was as if his tail had been stepped on and his lungs had been stabbed.

Immediately, Shi Hao, the censor of the left deputy capital, jumped out, and said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, I think it is impossible!"

Zhu Houzhao, who has been on the throne for nearly two years, is no longer the original new king who is ignorant of the government. How can he not know the dispute between North Korea, Chinese and military? Civil servants have been working hard to suppress military officials. Mental preparation.

Originally, he thought that the remaining prestige of disposing of the two court elders and a dozen civil servants just now could deter these civil servants and let him pass the reward to Li Huan smoothly, but he still underestimated the sensitivity of the civil official group.

However, Zhu Houzhao was not disappointed. After all, it was expected, especially when he saw that the first person to stand up against it was Shi Hao, the deputy capital of the left, and he couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The rest of the officials were about to stand up, but when they saw Shi Hao, the deputy capital censor, had already stood up, they hesitated, and decided to check the situation first.

After all, I have experienced too much in the past half a day, and each of them is like riding a roller coaster. Who knew that the emperor was so decisive all of a sudden.

Let Shi Hao try the emperor's reaction.

Li Huan looked up at Shi Hao. He didn't know Shi Hao actually, but he knew this one. Ma Yongcheng had made fun of him at the beginning, and among the crimes confessed by Luo Wenxiang, Du Wen, and Han Fuli, there were also several crimes. It has something to do with the left deputy capital censor.

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